La Barrière

1889

on display

Paul Gauguin1848 Paris – 1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa

The picture was taken in the Breton fishing village Le Pouldu not far from Pont-Aven. The same lattice gate was painted, also in 1889, by Paul Sérusier (1864-1927) (Paris, Musée d'Orsay). In that year Sérusier founded the Symbolist group of artists Les Nabis.In: Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.), edited by Christian Klemm, Franziska Lentzsch, Gian Casper Bott et al., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007.

Also known as

La Barrière (ou la gardeuse de porcs) Das Gittertor The Gate Die Schweinehüterin [historic]

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

image: 92.5 x 73 cm

Inventory number

1981/0002

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, Bequest of H. Hausammann, 1981

Signature

inscr. b. l.: P. Gaugin 89

Inscriptions

Catalogue raisonné

Wildenstein 353

Accession year

1981

Provenance

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Literature (general)

- Die Meisterwerke, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft/Christian Klemm, Sammlungskatalog Kunsthaus Zürich, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 153 (ill.). - Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 242. - Kunsthaus Zürich. 57 Meisterwerke. Liber amicorum für Felix Baumann, Sammlungskatalog Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, 2000, S. 36 (ill.) [Text: Christoph Becker]. - Daniel Wildenstein: Gauguin. Premier itinéraire d'un sauvage. Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint (1873-1888), Bd. 1, Milan: Skira, 2001, No. 353. - G. M. Sugana: Das gemalte Gesamtwerk von Gauguin, Zürich: Buchclub Ex Libris, 1972, No. 169, ill. No. XV.

Object type

painting

Classification

C 1[2] painting 19th century FRA

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